Improvement in apparatus for carbureting- air and gas



1. B.HYD15.

Carbureter.

No. 107,262. Patemed Sept. 13, 1870.

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-top edge of this vessel has a sealing recess, c, in which .a` sealing anch or rim, secured to the cover, is susi a fixed top, is made of such size as to pass iiecl y into isv provided with ,a sealingnut andwasher. It also passes through the top of the vessel 7.', and is there v,aient @pitre J. BURROWS HYDE,0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

letta-s Patent No. 107,262,

dalcll September 13, 1879.

IMPROVEM-ENT IN APPARATUS FOR CARBURETING- AIR AND GAS.

TheSchedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of che same.

-Qd-I-u- I also similarly provided and sealed. I use washers ot' soft leather or common blotting-paper, saturated with melted pan dine.

To all whom Iit may concern:

Be it known that I, J. Bonnows HYDE, of the city, county, and State of New York, havcfiuvcnted a new and useful Apparatus for Oarburetin' Atmospheric Air and Commercial Gas, by the employment therewith of hydrocarbon fluid; and I declare. the following to be a full and vexact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and theletters of reference thereon.

lFigure I shows aside elevation of thel apparatus, partly in section;

Figure II, the same, in section; and

Figure III, a horizontal section.

a represents an u pright vessel, ot' tin or other metal, provided with. a movable cover, '1), having propel' clamps to hold and secure it in place. The

pended.

This vessel a contains the carbureting apparatus, consisting of two or more perforated diaphragms, d, three being represented inthe drawings, andof .slightly less diameter than the inside of the scaling recess.

These diaplnagms should best have downward anches or rims on their outer edges, and are secured to a central vertical tube, e, extending from near the bottom. of the vessel, where it is permanently closed, and thence through the cover at the top.

One ofthe diaphragms is secured to the 'lower end of this tube, and a second one is fastenedabout 'an inch above it, between which, in the intervening space, the tube is perforated all around with small holes. About an inch below thecover ot' the vessel, another diaphragm is also' secured to the tube, all b eing so placed that the holesyin the diaphragins are vertically coincident, and those holes may be' supplied with short tubes, f f, as shown in the drawings,o r they maybe dispensed with. Other and smaller lioles are made through the diaphragm plates, inthe intervening spaces between `tubes or. holes, as shown in Fig. III. 'v

Ordinary lamp-wick, or other propercapillary niedium, is passed from top to bottom through the larger orifices of the diaphragrns, as shown at g, and I prefer to envelop the whole ioin top to bottom with a woven capillary fabric, preferring cotton, or Canton flannel, as shown at 7i.

A second vessel, i, without cover, and having a sealing recess around its outside, receives the vessel a, and a third vessel, 7.', open at the bottom, but with the sealing recess ofi.

The tube c passes through the cover of a, where it lwo short tubes, l and ni.,`a re secured to the cover or a, and 'extend through the top of'lt, under one ot' which atubeyn, is shown coincident therewith, ami extending through the diaphragms to near the bottom ofthe vessel. Y

The capillary mediums being` properly arranged, placed i'n the vessel a, and the sealing recess c being iilled,l and for which Igprefer a. mixture of paratlne softened with petroleum, or other proper medium, and meltedltogether to ."forrn a plastic consistency, the Vcover isthen puta-on and secured. The recess in the vessel i is then similarly filled, or I can employ therefora mixture of'- gluc, molasses, and water, or other proper-'medium or mixture, orusewateronly. Ithen set therein the vesselk,and secure the nuts and washers. I then lill in the carbureting uid through the tube l, overthe tube u, until the vessel a is charged about au inch over the second diaphragm, and close the filling tube with a stopper, `orfotherwise.

But, as the use of any fluidas a sealing medium for gases is attended with many inconveniences, "such as working over, by tipping or otherwise, and mixing with the carbnreting Huid by evaporation, by freezing, by impoverishing the action of the capillaries, by .adhcring to andbeingliftedwith the surface of the scalingvessel when withdrawn,'andfalling into the apparatos, I, to obviate these and other like diiiculties, fill the sealing recess with coarse sand, orits equivalent, and then pour in the fluid until it is thoroughly lled. For this purpose glyceripe is best, as it is not ati'ectedby the vapors of the hydrocarbon, and has no `change from temperature of the air. The sealingvcssel is easily worked to its 'seat int-o thesand after- ',ward. i Y

gas-tubes, being connected with the tube.,` e, passes down and out at the smallorices in the tube.

The air or 'llience it circulates in the fluid, and, passing-upward through 4the-small holes inthe diaphragms, escapes bythe short tube m, loaded with the vapor contrib-` tions in lilling and discharging it. Small tubes or veri.`

ices are made in both those fluid vessels, to bc opened,

when necessary, to admit air and permit the uid to I use a closed vessel or rescess, nor a double sealing or safety vessel; but;

l do claim- 1. A carbureter, made by securing two or more disks secured to an upright receiving and conductingtube, the disks` haring double perfbrations, one forreeeiving and holding a spur capillary medium, which is threaded or woven through the disks from top to b0t tom, and the other holes for allowing the carbureted mediums to pass upward, when the lower part of the capillaries is in'nnersed in the fluid, and escaping as dcscribed. l i

2. The sealing of a carburcting apparatus with glycerine or compounds of glyceriue, with or without a. mixture of sand, or its equivalent, as described.

3. Surroumling the whole or major part of a. earbureter with a sea-led recess' for atmospheric air, as a non-comluctor, or partial non-conductor, of refrigeralfion, arising from evaporation of the hydrocarbon.

J. BURROWS HYDE.

Witnesses Jorn.Y A. BRYAN, GHAnLns WRIGHT. 

